Lead PostgreSQL Architect – High Availability & Cloud

nttlimited; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA undertakes PostgreSQL administration across on‑prem, cloud, and managed environments. The role monitors availability, performance, replication, and capacity, resolving incidents and handling backups, high-availability configurations and upgrades.

You will analyse query performance, manage access and security, and support migrations while automating health checks and reporting, with opportunities to shape resilience, DR testing and modernization roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Proficient in PostgreSQL administration and security.
• Adept at backup, recovery and high-availability configurations.
• Experience with Linux systems and cloud-hosted PostgreSQL services.

Responsibilities

• Monitor database availability, performance, replication and capacity.
• Resolve incidents and fulfil database service requests.
• Install, configure, patch and upgrade PostgreSQL environments.
• Perform backup, restoration and point-in-time recovery.
• Configure and maintain replication and high-availability capabilities.
• Analyse query performance and optimise database configurations.
• Manage database access, roles, encryption and auditing.
• Support migrations from other database technologies.
• Automate operational health checks, maintenance and reporting.
• Support resilience and disaster-recovery testing.
• At L4, provide expert support for complex database failures or performance issues.
• At L5, define PostgreSQL architecture, operating standards and modernization roadmaps.

Skills

PostgreSQL administration

Streaming replication

High availability

Backup and recovery

Performance tuning

Database security

Linux administration

Cloud-hosted PostgreSQL

Scripting and automation

Job description

NTT DATA undertakes PostgreSQL administration across on‑prem, cloud, and managed environments. The role monitors availability, performance, replication, and capacity, resolving incidents and handling backups, high-availability configurations and upgrades.

You will analyse query performance, manage access and security, and support migrations while automating health checks and reporting, with opportunities to shape resilience, DR testing and modernization roadmaps.